“Team at Skype is looking for passionate, team-oriented and self-motivated developers to help us bring Skype experience on to the Web,” reads a recent Microsoft job ad. “You will have a chance to integrate existing Skype solutions onto the web with the support of the backend services build from the ground up using latest Microsoft technologies.”

“Result of your work will be used by hundreds millions of thankful users worldwide.You will work in dynamical environment with the team of true professionals participating in defining, designing, developing, testing and documenting one of the most popular applications of the modern world.”

Microsoft wants someone well versed in developing “HTML5 UI’s including rich interaction based on JavaScript.” Does this mean that the upcoming “Skype for Browsers” will be based on WebRTC? Taking into account WebRTC’s popularity among browser vendors, there seems to be a strong possibility of that happening. However, it is too early to say anything with any degree of certainty.